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Journals Director

Job Group: Communications and Marketing
Job Subgroup: Publications and Publishing
Salary Range (Annual): 27: $84,800-173,360
Employee Category: Limited
Job Code: CM090
  • Job Summary:
    Responsible for directing the activities of the journals publishing division of the university press. Provides strategic vision, interacts directly with a range of stakeholders, directs unit operations, develops policies and procedures, and supervises staff to ensure journals acquisition, distribution, and marketing.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Directs journals publishing strategic planning initiatives to identify and comply with rapidly changing publishing technologies and trends within scholarly journal publishing as well as a wide range of industry standards
    • Directs staff and develops operating policies and procedures related to publishing scholarly journals, including subscription management, copyediting, licenses and permissions, typesetting and production, marketing and promotion
    • Develops journals acquisition strategy including identifying, recruiting, and onboarding new journals
    • Develops and monitors unit budget, approves unit expenditures, drafts annual reports for both internal and external dissemination, and actively seeks strategies to improve financial return
    • Serves as primary liaison to external journal owners and editors, representing the needs and priorities of the UW Press
    • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
  • Education:
    Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    Yes
  • Employee Category:
    Limited
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    27: $84,800-173,360
  • Job Code:
    CM090: Journals Director
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=CM090

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